Rainer Weiss, Nobel prize in physics laureate
22. 2. 2020
He lived in Czechoslovakia. He built hi-fi systems. He dropped out of school. He came up with the idea for a gravitational wave detector. He helped build the LIGO detector. For this, he received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Rainer Weiss. How do you build a system that can capture such tiny changes in spacetime? What is the most important next direction in space research? And what does he remember of his life in Czechoslovakia?
